Well, it was not a physical meeting. Rather, it was through the magic of live radio. While I was living in Dallas, I found out that Frank was going to be interviewed live on KNON-FM so I called in and got to talk to him live on the air.

I told him that when I was very young, I had seen the cover of his album, Weasels Rip My Flesh, and that I turned out pretty much okay. This was during the whole PMRC situation, and the topic went from music that was supposedly “bad for kids” to album art that offended the Washington Wives’ sensibilities.

It was just a brief tete a tete, but I will always remember that bit of communication with Frank Zappa. Though I wish I could have met him face to face while he was still alive, it was still a meeting of minds and that was pretty cool even back in the 1980’s.